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The impacts of short break provision on disabled children and families: an international literature review
No full textFor over 30 years, short breaks have been part of the landscape of support provision for families with a disabled child. Historically, the term ‘respite care’ has been used in much of the research literature concerning short breaks for families with a disabled child. However, ‘short breaks’ has become the preferred term, partly due to the negative connotations of family carers requiring ‘respite’ from their children, and partly because short breaks now encompass a much wider range of supports than out-of-home placement in specialist residential facilities (Cramer and Carlin, 2008). As such, the term ‘short breaks’ will be used throughout this review, with the exception of direct quotes from research studies where the term ‘respite’ is used by study participants or study authors
What I saw in Japan [manuscript] /
No full text"This is a Xerox copy of the original manuscript in the handwriting of my grandfather William Stonham Short, who, as a young man, spent some two years in Japan. He was born in England (London district I understand), and either before or after his visit to Japan, emigrated to New Zealand where eventually he worked for many years until his retirement, Permanent Head of the public works dept. He died in Auckland in about 1930. [SIGNED] 16 Jan 1931 B.E. XX" ...handwritten on the cover.; The dates for his visit to Japan is estimated to be in between 1864 to 1874, reading his biography --- cataloguer.; Biographical information found online for the author at http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc01Cycl-t1-body-d3-d15-d20.html : Mr. William Stonham Short, Chief Clerk of the Land and Survey Department, hails from London, where he was born and his earlier education was received. He came out to the colonies in 1864, landing in Sydney, and after receiving further education, was put to the soft goods trade in the establishment of Messrs. David Jones and Co. Mr. Short was subsequently in Messrs. Farmer and Co.'s emporium, but at the end of some four years his health failed, and he was compelled to take an extended sea voyage. He sailed for China and Japan, and for several years traded as super-cargo in the China Seas, afterwards living in Japan, and visiting Vladivostock, in Russian Siberia. His health having greatly improved, Mr. Short returned to New South Wales, and crossed over to Wellington, arriving in December, 1874. Entering the Civil Service almost immediately as clerk in the Public Works Department, after about six years he retired to take up the position of bookkeeper to Messrs. Duthie and Co. In 1882 Mr. Short re-entered the Government service, at an advanced salary, in the Public Works Department, and eight years later was transferred to the Land and Survey Department as clerk. Mr. Short was appointed Chief Clerk in 1892. His tastes are musical, and he occupies the post of organist at Trinity Wesleyan Church, Newtown. Mr. Short was married in 1877 to Miss Elizabeth Sarah Leighton, daughter of Mr. John Leighton, of Nottingham, and has three daughters and six sons.; Also available online: http://nla.gov.au/nla.gen-vn6150767; HSW 3173 ; added to HSW collection by librarian in 2012
Factors that affect short-term commercial bank lending to developing countries
No full textDeveloping countries rely on short-term trade credits for imports of several essential consumer goods, including medicines and basic food supplies. The credits also facilitate export-related transactions. The mechanisms commercial banks use to provide trade credits to developing countries are complex and costly. Even a temporary break in the flow of short-term credit can seriously hurt a country's business. But since short-term trade credits can be structured so that they involve a few risks to a bank and at the same time are very costly to the debtor, they are generally the last forms of credit to be cut and the first to be reestablished in debt-distressed developing countries. To gauge the likelihood of continued short-term trade related financial flows to developing countries, the authors examined the factors that affect short-term commercial bank loans. They studied relevant data over time for seven countries for which data were available: Argentina, Brazil, Egypt,India, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. They found that : a) countries with greater growth prospects get more short-term credit; b) short-term credits are usually meant to finance countries with significant trade deficits; c) higher levels of external indebtedness are generally coupled with higher levels of short-term indebtedness to commercial banks; and d) country-specific factors affect the volume of short-term lending to a country.Financial Intermediation,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Strategic Debt Management,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring
Hoyle abridged, [electronic resource] : part II. Or, short rules for playing the game of quadrille; with the laws of the game, &c. By Bob Short, Author of Short Rules for Whist.
No full textBob Short = Robert Withy.Price from imprint: price Sixpence (entered at Stationers' Hall.Not in RoscoeElectronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Six Rusalki [short story]
No full textThis short story is a feminist reimagining of a range of mermaid/rusalki tales, and The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Part of a series of contemporary fairy tale revitalisations by the author
Author Identifcation in Short Texts
No full textMost research on author identification considers large texts. Not many research is done on author identification for short texts, while short texts are commonly used since the rise of digital media. The anonymous nature of internet applications offers possibilities to use the internet for illegitimate purposes. In these cases, it can be very useful to be able to predict who the author of a message is. Van der Knaap and Grootjen [28] showed that authors of short texts can be identified using single words (word unigrams)
with Formal Concept Analysis.
In theory, grammatical information can also be used as an indication of the author of the text. Grammatical information can be captured by word bigrams. Word bigrams are pairs of successive words, so they reveal some information on the sentence structure the author used. For this thesis I performed experiments using word bigrams as features for author identification to determine whether performance increases compared to using word unigrams as features. In most languages many grammatical relations within a sentence are between words that are not successive. The DUPIRA parser, a natural language parser for Dutch, produces dependency triplets that represent relations between non successive words, based on the Dutch grammar. I used these triplets as features, either alone or in combination with unigrams or bigrams. People often use smileys when communicating with someone using digital media.
Therefore, I also examined the influence of smileys on author identification.
The messages used for the experiments are obtained from the subsection `Eurovision Songfestival 2010' of the fok.nl message board. With these messages the data files for 7 feature sets were constructed: word unigrams excluding smileys, word unigrams including smileys, word bigrams excluding smileys, word bigrams including smileys, only dependency triplets, triplets+word unigrams, triplets+word bigrams. A support vector machine algorithm (SVM) was used as the classification method. This is a commonly used algorithm for author identification. There are different implementations of SVM. In this thesis SMO, LibSVM and LibLINEAR are compared. The LibLINEAR algorithm gave the best results.
The results revealed that in all conditions the performance is above chance level. So all reveal some information about the author. The performance for the word unigrams including smileys showed the best results, while the performance using the dependency triplets is the lowest. Results also revealed that when smileys are considered the performance increases, so smileys provide additional information about
the author
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
Teaching James Joyce's Short Fiction
No full textThe article provides insights for creative writing teachers on how to introduce their students to the short stories of James Joyce and what benefits would be provided in a close study of the writing. According to the author, the epiphanic nature of Joyce's stories makes an effect like sunbursts of light on a canvas. She stresses that the role of the narrator and the presence of the writer in the text offer important pedagogical idea
Spatial Metaphors of Ambiguity in Roman Culture
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the Paideia Institute via the link in this recordThis chapter takes a somewhat different approach to the topic of ambiguity in Latin literature from
the others in this volume. Taking as a given that Latin speakers were mindful of the capacity of
some words, phrases, and even whole sentences to convey multiple different meanings, other
chapters examine a range of literary settings where lexical or syntactic ambiguities appear to be
exploited deliberately by Latin authors for imaginative aims. I equally assume an awareness of
ambiguity on the part of Latin speakers, but in this paper I interrogate how they conceived of this
and other types of multiplicity of meaning.1
In other words, I look at how Latin speakers went
about representing ambiguity to themselves and how they understood ambiguity as part of their
experience generally. I start by showing that Latin speakers’ conventional understanding of
ambiguity is delivered metaphorically via the image of PATHS DIVERGING. I also show, however,
that in certain technical contexts the image of CENTRALITY is used, permitting the delineation of
two different kinds of ambiguous meaning relations. I go on to argue that what provides the
motivation for, and thus makes sense of, these twin images is Latin’s regular conceptualization of
“meaning” itself in terms of a linear spatial metaphor. I conclude by suggesting that Latin’s spatial
metaphorics of ambiguity anticipate certain aspects of contemporary linguistic theory – but also
more than this: that it constituted a feature of Roman society’s signifying order, contributing to the
valuation of this phenomenon in the culture
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